E-learn Weblog van Willem van Valkenburg
Blogging about OER, OCW, Blackboard, Mobile, Social Media and other interesting stuff
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EIF DinerDebat about OpenData
Jan 25th
Last night I was invited by the European Internet Foundation to speak at a Diner Debat about OpenData. There were 3 speakers:
Marcus Dapp, IT strategist for the city government of Munich and board member OKF Germany at Open Knowledge Foundation.
Ric… more »
New Open Education Platform Udacity
Jan 24th
Yesterday Sebastian Thrun announced that he is starting a new Open Education platform Udacity.com. Last year he was the initiator for the succesful open classes on Artifical Intellegence with more than 150.000 students.
The first course they will launc… more »
Best gelezen in 2011
Dec 30th
In 2011 heb ik 78 blogitems geschreven op deze blog, inclusief deze (daarnaast heb ik ook nog meer dan 5000 tweets verstuurd).
De top 10 van beste bekeken items uit 2011 geeft ook een mooi overzicht van waar ik me mee bezig houd op de TU Delft:
Blac… more »
Open Educational Resources in Brazil
Dec 26th
Andreia Inamoratodos Santos has written an interesting report about Open Educational Resources (OER) in Brazil. The government has set ambitious goals for education in Brazil and OER can certainly help to reach those goals.
Andreia states that the conc… more »
Als je steelt, doe het dan goed
Dec 6th
Voor het december-nummer van het Surf Magazine was ik gevraagd om een column te schrijven voor de achterpagina. Surf Magazine is een kwartaalmagazine met nieuws en achtergrondinformatie over ICT voor het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek. Een abonnement is g… more »
The opposite of Open is ...
Oct 27th
During the OpenEd 2011 conference Cable Green of Creative Commons had an interesting quote:
"The opposite of open is not closed, the opposite of open is broken"
I didn't see his presentation, I have to wait till they publish the video on the youtube c… more »
First annual Open Education Week declared for 5-10 March 2012
Oct 26th
Next week we organize an Open Education week in the Netherlands. For next year the OpenCourseWare Consortium has taken the initiative to organize a worldwide Open Education Week for 5-10 March 2012:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (October 25, 2011) – 5-10 March 201… more »
Open Education part of EU Open Data Directive?
Oct 25th
Last Thursday I was invited to a hearing abou the Open Data Directive of the European Commission. The hearing was organised by Dutch MP Marietje Schaake of the ELDR.
There were presentation from different experts and an interesting movie about Open Dat… more »
Blackboard follows me into Open Education
Oct 19th
Earlier this year I moved away from the management of our Blackboard system to full-time being busy with OpenCourseWare. Today Blackboard announced that they are following me in the direction of Open Education:
Blackboard Inc. today announced a series… more »
Keynote presentation about OpenCourseWare at Eurosakai
Sep 29th
Last Tuesday I was asked to do a keynote presentation for the EuroSakai conference in Amsterdam. The conference was in Pakhuis De Zwijger.
The conference was the European conference for the users of the open-source CLE (Collaboration and Learning Env… more »
